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Dr Mridula Bandyopadhyay

BSc, MSc, CPS, MPhil, PhD

Research Fellow & Team Investigator, COMPASS
 
Email: m.bandyopadhyay@latrobe.edu.au
Telephone: +61 3 8341 8576
 

Mridula is a demographer and an anthropologist with an interest in women’s health issues. She has worked in various Asia-Pacific countries on complex population health issues. She continues to work in the area of gender, reproductive health, reproductive rights, gender-based violence, health and development, and determinants of health.

She has been working with immigrant women’s health research in Australia for several years. She has also worked in comparative public and social policy, education and multi-media projects; and with the Australian Public Sector on primary health care and health services policy development. She joined MCHR in September 2007 under the COMPASS program to continue her work with immigrant and refugee women’s health.
 
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Diabetes in pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes Mellitus)
  • Reproductive health and reproductive rights
  • Sexual health
  • Determinants of health
  • Gender-based violence
  • Health of immigrant and refugee women
  • International health
 
CURRENT PROJECT
 
Lost in translation? Health care providers’ and South Asian women’s views about Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) management strategies
Team:

Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Rhonda Small, Jeremy Oats, Mary-Ann Davey, Catharine McNamara, Amanda Aylward, Deborah Boyce, Helena Teede
Funding: Faculty of Health Sciences Research Grant, La Trobe University
Status:

Recruitment and data collection in progress
 
COMPLETED PROJECT
 
South Asian women’s experience of living with gestational diabetes mellitus
Team:

Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Rhonda Small, Jeremy Oats, Della Forster, Mary-Ann Davey, Amanda Aylward
Funding: Faculty of Health Sciences Research Grant, La Trobe University
Status:

Project completed, one paper published
 
PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Book

Bandyopadhyay M, MacPherson S. Women and Health: Tradition and Culture in Rural India. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, UK (1998).

Book Chapters

Bandyopadhyay M. Women’s Mental Health in the Context of HIV/AIDS. In Mental Health Aspects of Reproductive Health: A Global Review of the Literature. Edited by Jane Fisher, Jill Astbury, Meena Cabral de Mello, Shekhar Saxena. p. 113-127. World Health Organization & United Nations Population Fund: Geneva (2009).

Bandyopadhyay M,Khan M R.Loss of face: Violence against women in South Asia. In Violence Against Women in Asian Societies, Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (ed.) p. 61-75. Routledge Curzon: London (2003).

Bandyopadhyay M, Thomas J. Social context of women migrant worker’s vulnerability to HIV infection in Hong Kong, China. In: South-East Asia HIV and Development Project, Population Mobility in Asia: Implications for HIV/AIDS Action Programmes. p. 49-65. UNDP: Bangkok (2000).

Articles in refereed journals

Bandyopadhyay M. Tackling complexities in understanding the social determinants of health: the contribution of ethnographic research. BMC Public Health Supplement (accepted September 2011)

Taft AJ, Bandyopadhyay M. Navigating complexity in Public Health (editorial). BMC Public Health Supplement (accepted September 2011)

Gagnon AJ, McDermott S, Rigol-Chachamovich J, Bandyopadhyay M, Stray-Pedersen B, Ng E, Stewart D, for the ROAM Collaboration. International Migration and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Systematic Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 25(6):575-592 (2011 Nov;). doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2011.01230.x

Bandyopadhyay M, Small R, Davey MA, Oats JJN, Forster D, Aylward A. Lived experience of gestational diabetes mellitus among immigrant South Asian women in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 51(4): 360-364 (2011)

Bandyopadhyay M, Small R, Watson LF, Brown S. Life with a new baby: How do immigrant and Australian-born women’s experiences compare? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 34(4): 412-421 (2010).

Bandyopadhyay M. Impact of ritual pollution on lactation and breastfeeding practices in rural West Bengal, India. International Breastfeeding Journal, 4:2 (2009).

Saw Saw, Manderson, L., Bandyopadhyay, M., Than Tun Sein, Myo Myo Mon and Win Maung. Public and/or private health care: Tuberculosis patients' perspectives in Myanmar. Health Research Policy and Systems, 7:19 (2009).

Willis, K., Green, J., Daly, J., Williamson, L., Bandyopadhyay, M. Perils and possibilities: Achieving best evidence from focus groups in public health research. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 33(2): 131-136 (2009).

Daly J., Bandyopadhyay M., Riggs E., & Williamson L. Ethical review and the assessment of research proposals using qualitative research methods. Monash Bioethics Review, 27(3): 43-53 (2008).

Bandyopadhyay M, Markovic M, Manderson L. Women’s perspectives of pain following day surgery in Australia, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Jun-Aug 24(4): 19-23. (2007).

Markovic M, Bandyopadhyay M, Manderson L, Allotey P, Murray S, Vu T. Day surgery in Australia: Qualitative research report, Journal of Sociology, .40(1): 74-84 (2004).

Bandyopadhyay M. Missing girls and son preference in rural India: Looking beyond popular myth. Health Care for Women International, 24(10): 910-926 (2003).

Markovic M, Bandyopadhyay M, Nicolson S, Watson C. Immigrant women’s perspectives of shared antenatal care: Short report. Australian Family Physician, 32(8): 672 (2003).
Bandyopadhyay M, Thomas J. Women Migrant Worker’s Vulnerability to HIV Infection in Hong Kong. AIDS CARE, 14(4): 509-521(2002).

Markovic M, Bandyopadhyay M, Manderson L, Vu T. Gynaecological Day Surgery and Quality of Care. Australian Health Care Review, 25 (3): 40-47 (2002).

Thomas J, Bandyopadhyay M. Ethnic Minorities and their Vulnerability to AIDS in a Border State in India. AIDS Care, 11(1): 45-60 (1999).
 
 
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